You know sometimes you look back and think about how you were always the one making dinner after practice, homework still to do, and your older brother and sister—gone, always gone—and you wonder if maybe you shouldn't have been so GOOD about it, you know? Like, did that just make it easier for them to disappear into their own lives, leaving you there with the little ones, and now here you are, retired, and who even ARE you without all the DOING.
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